Hello, and welcome to GreatExpat.com! My name is Kendal Brenneman and
I am an American actress, currently living in Los Angeles, California.

Great Expatations was an idea that came to me this past spring, right
before a trip to Paris. I had been racking my brain trying to come up
with a new project to produce. I was searching everywhere for inspiration.
Suddenly, everything clicked! I frantically reserved every screenwriting
book in the L.A. Library, ordered others from Amazon, and read non-stop
until I finished them whole stack (I am not a screenwriter, you see...).
I then purchased a nice video camera, and off I went to Paris. I began
gathering expats and extracting stories from them. I began writing, and
testing out the camera. I pressured myself to begin filming an episode,
but it wasn't to be. My trip quickly came to an end, and I realized that
I would need to return, this time with more than a single month of preparation!

Back in L.A., I expanded upon my initial idea, and decided that not only
would I create a webseries, but I would create an entire, world-wide
community around it. I would create not only a source of entertainment
and inspiration for expatriates, but a place where expatriates and travelers
could share their own journeys, and make connections in their new home cities.
I would find out what expatriates needed and wanted, and give it to them (and
if there's something, as an expat, you need or want from a website, feel free
to email me!).

The webseries itself will be a fictional comedy chronicling daily life as an
outsider, shot in Paris with a multinational cast and crew beginning in 2011.
Great Expatations will be a unique and exciting project, and I look forward
to the day when we begin to roll camera. So if you'll excuse me now, I have
some work to do!